The Life We're Living Now

Jamie Marquez-Bratcher, Colleen Phelan
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The Life We're Living Now is a podcast about navigating midlife with honesty, humor, and curiosity. Hosted by longtime friends Jamie and Colleen, the show explores the realities of adulthood as it unfolds — from perimenopause and changing hormones to creativity, work, relationships, travel, books, friendship, and the quiet (or not-so-quiet) reckoning that comes after many long-term goals have been achieved. This is a space for real conversations about growth, and redefining what matters — without pretending to have it all figured out. Sometimes reflective, sometimes funny, sometimes very bothered, the show embraces the messiness of life as it is right now. Unplanned and unbothered… or at least trying to be.

Episodes

  1. The Life We're Living Now

    4D AGO

    The Life We're Living Now

    Welcome to The Life We're Living Now — a new chapter, ten years in the making. In this first episode, longtime friends Jamie and Colleen return to podcasting to talk openly about the stage of life they find themselves in now. It's a conversation shaped by, shifting hormones, adult children preparing to leave home, single life, homeownership, careers, and the strange in-between space that appears after many of the goals you once worked toward have been achieved. They reflect on caregiving, identity, emotional regulation (or lack thereof), changing relationships with time, responsibility, and ambition, and what it feels like to ask "what's next?" without a clean and neat answer. Along the way, they share stories about forgotten toiletries, old planners resurfacing, decade-old goals, clean kitchens, crumbs on counters, and the quiet realization that caring less about certain things may actually be part of growing wiser. This episode isn't about having it all figured out — it's about talking it out. It's an invitation to listen in as two women navigate midlife with honesty, humor, curiosity, and a willingness to evolve. Unplanned. Unbothered. (Mostly.)

    35 min
  • 1 Episode

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About

The Life We're Living Now is a podcast about navigating midlife with honesty, humor, and curiosity. Hosted by longtime friends Jamie and Colleen, the show explores the realities of adulthood as it unfolds — from perimenopause and changing hormones to creativity, work, relationships, travel, books, friendship, and the quiet (or not-so-quiet) reckoning that comes after many long-term goals have been achieved. This is a space for real conversations about growth, and redefining what matters — without pretending to have it all figured out. Sometimes reflective, sometimes funny, sometimes very bothered, the show embraces the messiness of life as it is right now. Unplanned and unbothered… or at least trying to be.

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  • Creator
    Jamie Marquez-Bratcher, Colleen Phelan
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    1
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026
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